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And finally, here is the film that tops our list of "Pirate Cinema's Top 3
Hollywood Movies of the 1990s" (*). Our winner was made by a director who, just
on the heels of what already seemed like the perfect underdog candidate for a
contest like this, managed to outdo himself once again. This is a movie about
fascism, and if only one out of a hundred people who went to see Schindler's
List would have watched this one instead, the world would be a better place.
The genre is vaguely science-fiction, but the setting is fully contemporary.
It's a film that shows how teenagers become nazis, it turns from high-school
romance into global war drama in a matter of minutes, and what makes it such an
outlier, and a visionary piece of cinema, is that it inverts not only the
ethics, but also the core ideological function of Hollywood: It refuses to
prove that fun is a Stahlbad, and instead demonstrates that a Stahlbad is fun.
Sadly, this film has been less influential than it should have been -- we can
only think of an art magazine that is named after it. There is also a sequel,
and we have taken a look at it (so that you don't have to, and you shouldn't).
(*) excluding the usual suspects: nothing by Martin Scorsese or David Lynch,
obviously no Quentin Tarantino, and no film we have ever screened before,
which rules out Heat, Point Break, Showgirls, Bound and Twelve Monkeys.
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pirate cinema berlin
u kottbusser tor
sunday, august 28, 8:30 pm
12 seats, rsvp
first come first serve
location in separate mail
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